It reminds me of a cross between adolescent artwork that I drew all over my Maths books, and a 2nd hand bookstore specialising in pulp and weird fantasy, with faded covers of Metal Hurlant, Epic, and Fangora magazines alongside cheesy westerns as well as sword & sorcery/sword & planet novellas.

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I've always felt the back cover to James Bond 007 was more exciting and signified fast-paced adventure better than the front cover did. The woman sitting in the invisible chair always looked a little odd to me.

Without doubt there's an impressionistic element to his work with the way he uses colours in his landscapes and he approaches composition. Makes his art in the RPG world look and feel pretty unique. One of my faves of all time. He's also a top bloke.

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I don't know if it would have mattered. The Moldvay D&D Basic Set was a big hit and that was almost the same color as Star Frontiers: Alpha Dawn. It was the '80s. It was part of the palette of the time.

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I liked the concept of TORG a lot more than the actual mechanics. The basic premise is that there are these alien realities which are attaching themselves to places on our earth -- dinosaurs in North America, elves and dragons in England, cybertech in Japan, and so on -- and players were "storm knights" trying to defeat minions of these realities. I like the fact that tech might not work in a dinosaur reality so the player would have to roll to impose their reality onto the default reality of that particular cosmos. The vibe of the setting was excellent, but I never really liked MasterBook or the use of the drama deck cards. I didn't play it much, so maybe if I'd played it more the system would have grown on me....

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This is one I'm guessing few of you will know. There was a comic book shop in Fresno I visited when I worked in the Sierra Nevada and my first season working in the USNPS coincided with the release of Dan Brereton's The Nocturnals limited series, so my semi-monthly supply runs 'down the hill' meant picking up the issues as they came out. Doc, Polychrome, Halloween Girl, and Gunwitch remain among my favorite comic book characters, and it was a real and very pleasant shock when Green Ronin released a Nocturnals sourcebook for 1e Mutants & Masterminds.

I ditched most of my d20 stuff long ago, but I kept the 1e M&M core rule and this sourcebook . . . just in case . . .

Btw, not only was it amazingly cool looking, it's a really good sourcebook for roleplaying the comic.

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I remember Nocturnals. Bought any comic stuff I could find on it, as well as the d20 sourcebook. Something about that artwork really grabs me. Never played the thing, but I liked it. Heck, I may still have it in a box somewhere, I'm really not sure.